Ali to sell Brookside cows over Ksh.05m debt

On July 3, the court granted the outspoken lawmaker’s request to ask auctioneers to seize assets of the business connected to the family of former President Uhuru Kenyatta in order to satisfy a Ksh500,051 debt.
The debt resulted from expenses that the court granted Mr. Ali in November 2022 after he prevailed in a lawsuit that the business had brought against him.
Following a petition from the milk processing company trying to have him silenced and reparations for financial losses, the MP was given costs.
Adrian Kamotho, the attorney for Mr. Ali, gave Fisra Auctioneers the order to seize and sell the business’s assets at public auction in order to recoup the money.
As a result, the letter to the auctioneer stated, “We hereby authorise and instruct you to execute the annexed warrants of attachments and sale, upon all known movable property of Brookside Dairy Limited, for the recovery of the decree sum ordered by the High Court of Kenya, on the 11th day of October 2022, and for the settlement of all costs, charges, penalties, interest, and expenses arising therefrom or incidental to the execution of our instructions.”
The movable property that the auctioneers have listed for attachment in the proclamation letter dated 4 July 2023 includes 40 dairy cows valued at Ksh150,000 and one cooling plant worth at Ksh400,000 in Mundoro, Gatundu South, Kiambu county.
Additionally, the auctioneers have listed PCs at Ksh 20,000, seven receiving chairs worth Ksh 6,000, office tables worth Ksh 30,000, office chairs worth Ksh 20,000, and printers worth Ksh 14,000 on their list of items.
According to the note, the intended attachment properties are in fair condition.
The warrant must be returned by the auctioneers on August 30, 2023, “with an endorsement certifying the day and manner in which it has been executed or the reason it has not been executed,” according to the documents.
The business had sued the MP in July 2022 on the grounds that he allegedly incited the public at a political rally to hurt its business financially and commercially by boycotting its goods.
The business filed a lawsuit against him for alleged serious constitutional rights violations and demanded unspecified damages from the MP.
The milk processing business asserted that the MP had complained about its purported financial exploitation of and exploitation of dairy farmers.
However, the lawsuit was dismissed by Justice Hedwig Ong’undi in October 2022 because the court determined that the Constitutional and Human Rights Division was the proper venue for the allegation.
After Mr. Ali submitted a preliminary objection contesting the Constitutional and Human Rights Court’s authority to decide the matters brought up by the company, Judge Ong’undi issued the decision.